OT - Mindless Rant

[Puke]

wait a minute, you dont have igloos?

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

edit: and who the heck is Celine Dion? sounds like a Frenchie, if Canadians are French and Eskimos are from Canada, is this Dion person some kind of French Eskimo from Canada? Or did you mean to say Celine Dio, the adopted Canadian step-daughter of Rodney James. In which case I can understand why people would be interested.

[This message has been edited by Puke (edited 27 July 2001).]

[dogscoff]

Well over on this side of the pond... (UK)

Cola = cola. No other carbonated bevrages (ie lemonade) are covered by this term.

Coke = cola. Even if they're buying Pepsi, most people will ask for a Coke. Now _that's_ brand identity.

Pop. Back in the 1950s people in the UK used the word "pop" as a blanket term for fizzy drinks of all kinds. Now it just sounds a little... well... camp. "Pop" is now only used for balloons and music.

Soda - on it's own means nothing. Soda water is simply plain carbonated water.

Basically we in the UK have no generic term to describe carbonated drinks in gnral. Th closst we hav is "soft drink" (Which I imagine applies to you lot as well) but which also ccovers all non-aloholic fruit juices, cordials etc. Not tea and coffee, though, oddly.

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so Brain but, if you replace the P with an O, my name would be Oinky, wouldn't it?"

[Rollo]

Now, to confuse matters a little bit more:
Where I come from we call pop "Brause" and sandwich "Stulle". Please note that I say pop, because I lived in Ohio for one year as an exchange student.

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Originally posted by capt_spoogy:
Some of you Americans know nothing of Canada...When I was in the US, I had people believing that Polar Bears would eat my garbage and I'd have to shew them off with a broom in Toronto during the 10 months of winter - and that was in Washington State - which is technically further north than Toronto. Others ask me "Do you know Celine Dion?" or do I live in a igloo? C'mon. Do you serious believe these things...?

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I know excactly what you mean. Coming from Germany I got questions like: "Is Adolf Hitler still in charge?", "Do you also have trees there?" and remarks like: "Wow, Germany, that must have been a long DRIVE."

Rollo

[edit] typo

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[Nitram Draw]

Pop is what you do to the top of a soda bottle so you can drink it.

[DaftWager]

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Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:
I was born and raised in AZ, and still live here, and I drink pop. My wife was born in up-state NY and moved to AZ as a teenager. She drinks pop as well. The trouble is, around here most people are transplants from elsewhere, so people here may drink pop, soda or coke. You have to have your universal translator on at all times.

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Really? I'm an AZ native (Chandler) too, and all I’ve ever heard is soda, even when I go out. This is all very strange.

[tesco samoa]

Hey Capt. Americans offical language is Metric. Their Govn't uses it.

Now if I could only end this message with that quote from abe simpson. Metric is the instrument of the devel. In my time we used to get........... Cannot remember the rest.

[geoschmo]

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Marge: Now, I know you haven't liked some of my past suggestions, like switching to the metric system --
Abe: The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.
- The Simpsons episode "A Star is Burns"

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